Hello everyone! I just wanted to hopefully get some answers as I slowly see myself starting to eat bad things again. (BF came home with a tonnnnn of easter candy! and would not throw i away. I know I don't have to eat it but it's in my house and I just can't have it here without eating it!)
So I have been logging my diet on livestrong.com and it's really great! I put in my goals like how much I would like to lose a week and it sets my goals for me and tells me how much I should eat...
Also I have a android app called noom that has a gps tracker that follows me when I walk and tells me distance, steps and calories.
Well I noticed the more I tracked my calories on livestrong my daily limit started going down! and I didn't ask it to do that!
I try to burn 700 calories 5 days a week but I usually end up only burning 500-600
my bmr is 1,700
so I figured if I ate 1,600 and burned 500 X 5 days a week I'd lose a lb a week...
but ever since livestrong decided to lower my daily intake I've been kinda going over and it makes me feel bad.. I thought maybe it's because of my weight going down I need less calories? but I'm comfortable with 1,600 and it leaves me with plenty of food to eat. But with 1,200 I'm always left hungry... Should I just try harder at the 1,200 calorie diet? also I walk maybe 2.5 - 3 miles when I do decide to and I do the elliptical mostly because I did an hour on a treadmill and I burned the same amount as I would in 30 min on an elliptical. ha. I have done the firm express cycle about 3-4 times now and it's a 4..week program? needless to say it's getting old. I've thought about insanity but I tried it once and nearly died x.x;; any suggestions?
I'm also worried about the sugar in the fruit I'm eating, like today I ate a tangelo, 8 strawberries and an apple and the sugar was like.. 36? or something.. and that's like a candy bar! it makes me not want to eat fruit but I have a terrible sweet tooth and if I don't I'll have shoved a whole box of cookies and a gallon of ice cream down my throat!
I've been trying to grocery shop better, with fresh fruits, veggies and things like that.. ground turkey. it's just alot of cooking as far as the chicken breast and the ground turkey is there anything that is fast healthy and low sodium? I tried the tyson grilled and it's just not worth the amount vs the calories.. and as far as groceries are 100 calorie things worse than sugar free cookies etc? or what?
I've been in this game for going on a year in july... so I definitely need to change up somethings I just need some fresh new ideas some easy cooking and challenging yet doable exercise!